CiasI? CHATTERER. 
feed on grapes where vineyards are cultivated; are - 
efteemed delicious food: eafily tamed. 
The length of the bird I faw was eight inches : 
the bill fhort, thick, and black; the bafe covered 
with black briftles; from thence paffes to the hind 
part of the head over each eye a bar of black: 
on the head is a fharp pointed creft reclining back- 
wards: the ivides are of a bright ruby colour: the 
cheeks tawny: the throat black, with a {mall briit- 
ly tufe in the middle. | 
The head, creft, and back afh colored mixed with 
red: the rump a fine cinereous: breaft and belly, 
pale chefnut dafhed with a vinaceous caft: the vent 
feathers bright bay: the lower part of the tail 
black ; the end of a rich yellow: the leffer coverts 
of the wings brown, the greater black tipt with 
white: the quil-feathers black, the three firft tipt 
with white; the fix next have half an inch of their 
exterior margin edged with fine yellow, the interior 
with white. But what diftinguifhes this from all 
other birds are the horny appendages from the 
tips of feven of the fecondary feathers of the co- 
lor and glofs of the beft red wax; fome have one 
more or one lefs: The legs are black. 
I think that the females want the yellow marks 
in the wings. 
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